Benito Stefanelli (1929 - December 1999) was an Italian film actor and stuntman who made over 60 appearances in film between 1955 and 1990. A Fistful of Dollars ( Per un Pugno di Dollari in Italy and officially on-screen in the U Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest
Stefanelli is best known in world cinema for his roles as henchmen in several of Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western films, portraying gang members in the trilogy of films A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More, (1965) and the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966. Sergio Leone ( January 3, 1929 &ndash April 30, 1989) was an Italian Film director. Spaghetti Western, also known in some countries in mainland Europe as the Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western A Fistful of Dollars ( Per un Pugno di Dollari in Italy and officially on-screen in the U For a Few Dollars More ( Per Qualche Dollaro in Più) is a 1965 Spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring The Good the Bad and the Ugly ( Il Buono il Brutto il Cattivo) is a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti western film directed He also appeared in the Sergio Leone picture Once Upon a Time in the West in 1968. Sergio Leone ( January 3, 1929 &ndash April 30, 1989) was an Italian Film director. Once Upon a Time in the West ( Italian title C'Era una Volta il West) is a 1968 epic Spaghetti Western
In his career Stefanelli appeared in countless other western films and particularly during the 1960s and early 1970s he worked simultaneously as a stunt coordinator on the films that he performed in including those of Sergio Leone. The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts. Sergio Leone ( January 3, 1929 &ndash April 30, 1989) was an Italian Film director. A fluent English speaker, he also reportedly served as Clint Eastwood's interpreter on the set of Fistful. Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr (born May 31 1930 is a four-time Academy Award winning American Actor and Filmmaker.